Intel Core i7-3540M vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i7-3540M vs Phenom II X4 945 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 945 performs better than the Core i7-3540M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3540M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-3540M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i7-3540M and Phenom II X4 945 have the same clock speed.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-3540M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.